looking for literature about safeguarding

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Im untertaking a very small scale literature review for social work degree.

I wanted to base my topic on the role of the church in safeguarding.

I did not want it to about priest abuse but more on the role of the church surounding safeguarding, either children, adults, domestic violence mental health, etc. Keeping fairly broad for reading purposes but then will pick out a few key themes and structure some questions around this.

Also not wanting to limit to the Catholic or anglican church, i.e wanted to include muslim faith, jewish faith etc etc and possibly anything about unliscenced churches.

I have a few social care and interprofessional journals but wanted to find some specific religiouse journals and policies and guidlines about safeguarding with in the church or other faiths. Any pointers of sourses of info would be very much appreciated.

Dealing with disclosure and how individuals who have srtong faith may respond in situations of abuse and DV or crisis interms of religious instructions for instance divorce, break up of family and how woman and or children may be marginalised or feel a lack of hounour etc. just some loose ideas that spring to mind.

My basis for this is firstly my own experience of DV within a catholic house hold as a child and my mothers own guilt etc and reasons for not leaving and also reading the Victoria climbie report and the role of her pastor in the abuse sustained.

Thanks very much any help pointers would be very much appreciated.

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Each CofE Diocese should have their safeguarding policy on their websites.

In our church, we have CRB checks for all children's workers, even occasional one. No one is allowed to be alone with a child. Children's groups always have male and female helpers. We are not allowed to meet with children/youth outside of church without the knowledge of the vicar or youth pastor. We have permission forms each year from their parents and most of us are first-aid trained. We have safe-guarding training every three years.

For the CofE this is the safeguarding policy.

Each diocese will have its own policy below this, for example Blackburn diocese

Each parish will have its own safeguarding policy below this.

I'm the safeguarding officer for my Church, so feel free to post/PM any further questions :)

(PM me if you want to see a copy of a parish safeguarding policy, obviously haven't linked mine or I will out myself )

...and it is also covered in general terms here - Working Together to Safeguard Children (DCSF 2010)

...and another thing...

I would expect LSCBs to have procedures to deal with forced marriage spiritual and religious `abuse and honour based abuse as examples where the lines between faith and safeguarding can cross.

thanks for the links the safeguarding policy for CofE is very helpfull. I have the working together saved as pdf and the links are great betsy so thanks. I will search my local SGB. I have the london saved to my favorites for some reason think I used it for another essay.

I also have a contact number for the safe guarding officer for the catholic diocess in my area.

anyone know any faith based or religious journals I could search for articles to read?

there might be stuff in the Catholic Herald ?

CofE have the Church Times but a lot of is "subscriber only" content, so not as good.

there was also the stuff in the news fairly recently about lack of adequate safeguarding procedures in many Madressahs

thank you. Yes I think panorama may have done an undercover program in a madressah.

www.northsomersetlscb.org.uk/uploads/files/283.pdf

Look at the safeguarding section on the Church of Scotland website for the policies and procedures governing all CoS churches.